Execution Books

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Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
4,186 members
305 reviews
4
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy
2,409 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
4
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,903 members
518 reviews
4.1
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,110 members
491 reviews
3.9
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The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
3,194 members
50 reviews
4
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
by Chris McChesney
1,140 members
6 reviews
4.1
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The Book of Daniel: A Novel
by E. L. Doctorow
1,685 members
26 reviews
3.8
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,979 members
121 reviews
4
10
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,903 members
581 reviews
3.9
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The Reckoning
by John Grisham
2,834 members
97 reviews
½ 3.5
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A Handbook on Hanging
by Charles Duff
241 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
13
The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory
6,712 members
178 reviews
3.8
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Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpurgo
1,857 members
65 reviews
4.1
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice
by Geoffrey Abbott
142 members
4 reviews
3.1
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
33,810 members
938 reviews
½ 4.3
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Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,239 members
55 reviews
3.9
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The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution
by Geoffrey Abbott
88 members
1 review
4.1
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,887 members
269 reviews
4
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The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory
16,729 members
387 reviews
3.9
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Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
8,125 members
378 reviews
½ 4.3
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One Corpse Too Many
by Ellis Peters
3,041 members
71 reviews
3.9
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Slammerkin
by Emma Donoghue
2,629 members
93 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Swallows of Kabul
by Yasmina Khadra
1,427 members
70 reviews
½ 3.6
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Shot in the Heart
by Mikal Gilmore
769 members
24 reviews
4.2
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
by David Malouf
395 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
28
Newes from the Dead
by Mary Hooper
367 members
27 reviews
3.8
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Prayers the Devil Answers
by Sharyn McCrumb
154 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
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Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind
by Howard Engel
128 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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Old Time Punishments
by William Andrews
99 members
½ 3.7
34
Until You Are Dead: The Book of Executions in America
by Frederick Drimmer
65 members
3.8
35
Hangmen of England: History of Execution from Jack Ketch to Albert Pierrepoint
by Brian Bailey
38 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
36
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
58,115 members
1,375 reviews
4.2
37
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
21,659 members
264 reviews
3.8
38
The Green Mile
by Stephen King
14,284 members
176 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy
10,051 members
211 reviews
4
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The Chamber
by John Grisham
9,581 members
70 reviews
½ 3.5
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
7,670 members
44 reviews
4.1
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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
6,260 members
109 reviews
3.9
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Change of Heart
by Jodi Picoult
5,466 members
165 reviews
3.8
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The Last Mile
by David Baldacci
2,603 members
81 reviews
4
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Billy Budd and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
2,297 members
15 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Five Chinese Brothers
by Claire Huchet Bishop
2,127 members
56 reviews
3.9
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Dawn
by Élie Wiesel
2,037 members
30 reviews
3.8
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
by Sharyn McCrumb
968 members
22 reviews
3.8
49
The Thin Executioner
by Darren Shan
406 members
17 reviews
4
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The London Hanged
by Peter Linebaugh
291 members
4 reviews
4.2
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Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
by Mark Regan Essig
258 members
1 review
3.9
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For Sake of Example
by Anthony Babington
70 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty
by Austin Sarat
42 members
1 review
4
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,516 members
700 reviews
4
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We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
9,999 members
247 reviews
3.8
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
4,379 members
53 reviews
3.9
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Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser
3,187 members
29 reviews
4
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Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
3,011 members
60 reviews
½ 3.4
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning
2,866 members
41 reviews
4.1
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
by Peter F. Drucker
2,266 members
21 reviews
4.1
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The Boy Who Dared
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
1,940 members
89 reviews
4
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Cloudsplitter
by Russell Banks
1,835 members
33 reviews
3.9
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Gallows Thief
by Bernard Cornwell
1,322 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
65
Woman at Point Zero
by Nawal El Saadawi
1,270 members
43 reviews
3.9
66
The Vagrants
by Yiyun Li
913 members
44 reviews
3.9
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King Charles II
by Antonia Fraser
880 members
9 reviews
4
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by Julia Fox
586 members
30 reviews
½ 3.3
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
by Jill Lepore
508 members
5 reviews
3.9
70
The Autobiography of an Execution
by David R. Dow
287 members
21 reviews
4.2
71
Joe Hill
by Wallace Stegner
284 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
72
Billy
by Albert French
237 members
8 reviews
3.9
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Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
by Anne Sebba
232 members
14 reviews
4
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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
by Larry Bossidy
224 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
75
Rambo [2008 film]
by Sylvester Stallone
211 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
76
Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England
by Douglas Hay
194 members
3 reviews
4.1
77
The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8
by Thomas Ott
150 members
8 reviews
4.1
78
The Nine Days Queen
by Karleen Bradford
148 members
1 review
3.8
79
Traitors of the Tower
by Alison Weir
142 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
80
The Execution of Private Slovik
by William Bradford Huie
134 members
6 reviews
4
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The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
by E. P. Evans
103 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
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Hung, Drawn, and Quartered: the story of execution through the ages
by Jonathan J. Moore
78 members
½ 4.4
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The Molly Maguires
by Anthony Bimba
71 members
2 reviews
3.1
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Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day
by Nigel Cawthorne
69 members
½ 3.4
86
The Last Execution
by Jesper Wung-Sung
59 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Execution Protocol: Inside America's Capital Punishment Industry
by Stephen Trombley
54 members
½ 3.4
88
The Thin Yellow Line
by William Moore
52 members
½ 3.7
89
Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree
by Alan Brooke
47 members
½ 3.4
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The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs of a Public Executioner
by Syd Dernley
29 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K. Rowling
122,386 members
1,084 reviews
½ 4.4
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
28,476 members
273 reviews
3.8
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Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
15,271 members
62 reviews
4
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The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
10,788 members
144 reviews
3.9
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,590 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
97
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
10,128 members
181 reviews
4.2
98
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
8,608 members
147 reviews
3.9
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Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,700 members
178 reviews
4.2
100
The Consolation of Philosophy
by Boethius
6,103 members
49 reviews
3.9